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Ecological Hermeneutics

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Ecological Hermeneutics reflects critically on the kinds of appeal to the Bible that have been made in environmental ethics and ecotheoloogy; engages with biblical texts with a view towards exploring their contribution to an ecological ethics; and explores the kind of hermeneutic necessary for such engagement to be fruitful for contemporary theology and ethics. Crucial to such broad reflection is the bringing together of a range of perspectives: biblical studies, historical theology, hermeneutics, and theological ethics.

The thematic coherence of the book is provided by the running focus on the ways in which biblical texts have been, or might be, read. This is not a volume on ecotheology; but rather on ecological hermeneutics. Indeed, some essays may show where biblical texts, or particular approaches in the history of interpretation, represent anthropocentric or even anti-ecological moves. One of the overall aims of the book will be to suggest how, and why, an ecological hermeneutic might be developed, and the kinds of intepretive choices that are required in such a development.

Ecological Hermeneutics by David G Horrell was published by Continuum in May 2010 and is our 45827th best seller. The ISBN for Ecological Hermeneutics is 9780567033048.

Section 2: Insights from the history of interpretationSection Introduction (The Editors)9. In the Beginning: Irenaeus, Creation, and the Environment (Francis Watson)10. The Fathers’ Readings of Genesis 1 (Morwenna Ludlow)11. Thomas Aquinas: Reading the Idea of Dominion in the Light of the Doctrine of Creation (Mark Wynn)12. Reformation readings of the Creation stories (H. Paul Santmire)13. Between Creation and Transfiguration: the environment in the Eastern Orthodox Tradition (Andrew Louth)14. Karl Barth’s Approach to Scripture and its Ecological Potential (Geoff Thompson)15. Hans Urs von Balthasar and a Creation-centred Hermeneutic (David Moss)16. Jürgen Moltmann on God and Creation (Jeremy Law)